Jeff Burt

The message from Dell and Lenovo last week at the World Economic Forum was the same: The PC business isn’t going anywhere. CEO Michael Dell and Gerry Smith, president of Lenovo Americas, said in separate interviews on CNBC’s Squawk Box that despite several years of declining sales of PCs worldwide, the market is stabilizing and […]

Fujitsu engineers are working on technology that they say could reduce problems caused by the No. 1 vulnerability in cyber-attacks: the employee in front of the keyboard. Despite all the products on the market today—from antivirus software to firewalls to virtual private networks (VPNs)—humans continue to be the key weakness in the security field. They […]

Mixed in with all the feature presentations during Microsoft’s Windows 10 event this week was the introduction of Surface Hub, the software giant’s massive device that combines video conferencing with whiteboard technology that officials said will make collaboration easier and more productive. Microsoft is leveraging a broad array of its products—from the upcoming Windows 10 […]

Giant Chinese tech vendor Huawei Technologies for more than two years has been dogged by suspicions that its networking products could pose a national security threat to the United States. Huawei executives have pushed back at questions about whether the company’s telecommunications equipment—including networking hardware like switches and routers—could include backdoors that would give the […]

Lenovo, in its first significant step since acquiring IBM’s x86 storage business in the fall, is partnering with storage giant EMC to offer reference architectures aimed at making it easier for businesses to build private clouds and virtual desktop infrastructures. The two vendors announced Jan. 22 that Lenovo’s Flex System servers can be used with […]

Intel executives are throwing their support behind President Obama’s push for the Republican-controlled Congress to enable him to accelerate overseas trade negotiations. Obama called for the authority during his State of the Union address Jan. 20, saying it was important to get agreements in place and allow more U.S. products to be sold in other […]

AT&T is looking to solve the thorny issue of interoperability in the unified communications space. The telecommunications giant is launching the AT&T UC Federation, a service that enables users to communicate in real time regardless of the unified communications (UC) platform they are using. The solution is aimed at addressing one of the key challenges […]

Pluribus Networks, one of a number of smaller startups in the highly competitive software-defined networks market, has raised another $50 million for its open networking platform from a major networking vendor and a firm known for its investment in giant Chinese online shopping site Alibaba. The funding from Ericsson and Temasek Holdings, as well as […]

Polycom continues to expand the capabilities of its video conferencing portfolio to make collaboration easier and more natural, regardless of where people are or what devices they’re using. The company is rolling out new facial-recognition technology that enables the camera to track everyone in the room and, when used with other Polycom software, analyzes data […]

Intel continues to invest in wearable technology and the Internet of things, most recently with the acquisition of small Swiss startup Composyt Light Labs, which is developing connected eyewear. The world’s largest chip maker bought the small company, a spinoff of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, known by the acronym EPFL, at the end […]

Advanced Micro Devices executives for more than two years have been working to expand the reach of the company’s products into new growth areas and reduce its reliance on a global PC market that is still struggling after three years of sales declines. AMD has seen success in the effort. According to company figures, in […]

Brocade wants to make it easier and less expensive for businesses to adopt its software-defined networking controller by offering the technology for free for a year. The company, which is building its software-defined networking (SDN) efforts from the technology it inherited when it bought Vyatta in 2012, announced the Vyatta SDN controller in September 2014. […]